Rescuers along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast pushed aside the dead to reach the living in a race against time and rising waters, while New Orleans sank deeper into crisis and Louisiana’s governor ordered storm refugees out of this drowning city.

Mary Foster, New Orleans

For thousands of New Orleans’ city’s poor, homeless and frail, just getting into the massive Louisiana Superdome and settling down was the hardest part.

Unknown Swedish blond Peter Gustafsson manufactured a crafty early-morning 68 to take an unexpected two-shot lead into Saturday’s third round of the Dunhill Challenge at the Leopard Creek Golf Club.

IF there’s a golfing God up there, he will see to it that Ernie Els wins the US PGA Championship starting at Whistling Straits, Wisconsin, this morning.